1928 Movies

Chain of pictures and moving images about the origination of the annual Yser pilgrimage from 1920 to 1929.

"He [Walter Lantz] and Tiny Ward are the two comics who are crazy about their visitor from the city, the very decorative Peggy Shaw. As they are riva...

Performances of two songs by Walt Roesner and the Capitolians, including a contest to find out who is the "hottest man in the band."

A train trip from Lima through the Andes mountains in 1928.

DeVry Cine-Tone short.

The only surviving film produced by Showa Kinema, the first company of pioneering sound-film producer Yoshizo Minagawa, records a speech by conservati...

Short Dutch animation film.

The 'Debutantes' are an all female orchestra led and directed by Harry Wayman doing some musical and dancing routines, Harrry accompanies with the vio...

September 8.

This silent film presents original materials from 1917–1921 and later reconstructions. Polonia Restituta shows the German occupation of Warsaw, the fi...

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

A daughter of a wealthy man was forced to marry a man even though she was already in a relationship with another man.

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

Made by an English family living in north India during the heyday of the Raj, this amateur film reveals the grandeur in which middle-class English col...

This short was the fourth of four that Earl Burtnett would make at Vitaphone in 1928. As with the previous ones, this here features three songs by Bur...

Filmed by Pedro Sambarino.

Early erotic short film. A pair of pretty, young, naked women frolic by the sea shore. The shots of the girls alternate with lines of poetry.

The Solomon Sir Jones films consist of 29 silent black and white films documenting African-American communities in Oklahoma from 1924 to 1928. The fil...